Sentence examples for is about to fail from inspiring English sources
Just as his operation is about to fail, Gru is hired by the Anti-Villain League to locate a world-class baddie who uses a flying magnet to steal a secret research lab in the Arctic Circle.
If you ask me, all the confusion around technological unemployment tells us this: the task-centered economy is about to fail.
It's incredibly valuable to have a life coach, a confidant, a trusted friend in your life, and to rely their perspective when yours is about to fail you.
"A.I.G. is about to fail," Paulson told Bush, warning that a potential collapse was likely to be catastrophic, especially with markets still highly unstable after the Lehman failure.
The computer, with its sensors and algorithms, can tell that a fan belt is about to fail because of a variation in the fan speed.
Thus, if regulators recognize that a systemically significant bank is about to fail, they can only wait for the inevitable (or perhaps criticize from afar).
I'm about to fail 4 out of 11 students in one of my classes because they simply stopped showing up.
According to James Lovelock, "our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail".
Unforgivably, the message comes at just the point when you've summoned the courage to drop your drawers, leaving you terrified that their stupid locking system might be about to fail and expose your nethers to another passenger.
In an internal email cited by the government one Citigroup trader stated the bank "should start praying" because so many of the investments it had made were about to fail.
